The Senate on Monday approved on third and final reading the Fiscal and Monetary Report Act of 2017, a bill which seeks to require economic managers to appear biannually before a joint congressional oversight panel.

In the days leading up to his second State of the Nation Address (SONA), President Rodrigo Roa Duterte signed Executive Orders (EOs) on July 17 that raised private and government workers' funeral benefits and streamlined the rules on…

Malacanang assured the public that there is nothing to get worried about the potential loss of $250 million in grants from the European Union, mostly for impoverished Muslim communities, because the Philippines can now stand on its own two…

The National Youth Commission (NYC) in 2016 implemented a measly 0.18 percent or P170,181.85 of its total P91.109 million budget for its gender and development (GAD) program, falling short of the required five percent, state auditors said.…

Will the House of Representatives indeed find so-called pork barrel funds in the P3.002-trillion national budget for 2016?
The House Committee on Appropriations is to start on Monday the scrutiny of the budget, starting with a…

Senator Koko Pimentel on Saturday hit Energy Secretary Jericho Petilla for the daily power outages being experienced by Mindanao for five years now.
“The energy department has not gone beyond mere band-aid solutions to the power woes…

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